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The Necessary Institutional Framework to Transform Formerly Planned Economies - with special emphasis on the institutions needed to stimulate foreign investment in the formerly pla...
Eliasson, Gunnar; Rybczynski, Tad; Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818418
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Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth
Henrekson, Magnus; Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the steam power revolution, electrification and the ICT revolution. The distinction between sectors producing and sectors using the new technology is emphasized. A major finding for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645283
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The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Krusell, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has “twin peaks”. The theory proposed here is consistent with vast differences in long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675722
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Norway in a Scandinavian perspective: What Would Have Happened without Oil?
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684427
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Colonial Heritage and Economic Development
Asoni, Andrea - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
While the importance of institutions for explaining cross-country income differences is widely recognized …, comparatively little is known about the origins of economic institutions. One strand of the literature emphasizes cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645416
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The Rise, Fall and Revival of a Capitalist Welfare State: What are the Policy Lessons from Sweden
Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
exceptionalism: Sweden became rich because of well-functioning capitalist institutions, and inequality was low before the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818548
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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions: A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism
Thomsson, Kaj - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
political institutions and industry characteristics of the US, while the features of the second equilibrium better describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562417
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Reducing Political Risks and Moral Hazard in East West Financial Relations
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818353
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialisation: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, R.E.; Martin, P.; Ottaviano, G.I.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639328
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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development
Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645340